Zhou Zhengan couldn't think of any excuses and said perfunctorily: "Not everyone likes candy. If you still want to give it as a gift, give me something else."
Jiang Nan could only nod his head and said, "Then I'll think about it again."
"Yansong was your classmate when you were in school?" Zhou Zhengan suddenly asked.
Jiang Nan didn't think much and said "hmm": "It's my classmate in high school."
"Really..." Zhou Zhengan said nothing more, his eyes were slightly lowered, thinking about something.
...
Three days before the wedding, Zhou Zhengan received a call from Qian Sun. At that time, he was doing experiments in a white coat in the research institute. He casually looked at the screen of his mobile phone and saw that it was Qian Sun. He took off the instrument and said something to Luo Fu. , and then walked outside.
The silent corridor was filled with the smell of air and coolness. Zhou Zhengan pressed the call answer button and sat on the bench.
Qian Sun said "Hey" and asked him what he was doing.
Zhou Zhengan asked him to talk about something.
Qian Sun clicked his tongue, and then said leisurely: "You know I have something to do, so I'll keep it short. In fact, it's not a big deal..."
Zhou Zhengan couldn't help but frowned when he heard the nonsense on his side, with a bit of impatience between his brows, but he didn't make a sound.
Qian Sun finally got to the point: "The last time I saw your wife in Beixin, I always felt that she looked familiar. Then didn't you tell me that she was from our school? I thought about it carefully after I went back. Suddenly I remembered, this girl sent you a New Year's card. At that time, you went to the class teacher's office. She was so small that she didn't look like someone from our grade. She stood at the door of our class and entrusted me to give it to you. That New Year’s card is for you.”
Zhou Zhengan's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. Did Jiang Nan write a New Year's greeting card to him? He had no impression at all. He received too many New Year's cards every year. Although he would open and read each one, he would not look closely at the name of the person who sent the card.
"Are you sure?" Zhou Zhengan asked.
Qian Sun guaranteed on the other end of the phone: "I'm very sure that this girl was timid back then. I only received this greeting card for you, so I still have a good memory."
Zhou Zhengan was silent and heard Qian Sun continue: "Originally, after so many years, this matter was a trivial matter even back then, but didn't you say that when we were eating that day, you wanted to know what she was doing at that time? , I saw that you were quite serious about what you said, so I was wondering if you would want to know about this. After all, I guess your personality doesn’t seem to be able to remember people sending you greeting cards.
I don't have anything else to do, so I just want to add some fun to you and your wife, maybe it's a little clue hehe. "Qian Sun finished the last sentence with a smile.
Zhou Zhengan didn't reply for a long time. It wasn't until Qian and Sun started to wonder if Zhou Zhengan had forgotten to hang up the phone that he heard his low voice, "Yes."
*
At about 5:30 in the afternoon, Zhou's mother heard the sound of parking cars coming from the yard. She thought it was Zhou Zhixu and his wife coming back, so she didn't pay much attention and continued to discuss decorating the window sill with her aunt at home.
Within a minute, there was a sound of the living room door being opened.
Zhou's mother glanced over there subconsciously and saw her son. She couldn't hide her surprise and stood up from the sofa and said, "Why are you back? Why didn't you call home?"
Zhou Zhengan walked in a hurry and walked straight upstairs. When he heard his mother's voice, he turned back briefly and said, "Come back and get something."
Zhou's mother frowned. Zhou Zheng'an rarely went home after graduating from university. Most of his things left at home were from before. She couldn't figure it out. What did he want to get in such a hurry?
Could it be something left behind on New Year’s Eve?
Zhou Zhengan first entered his bedroom and looked around. There were few things in the room and the structure was simple. He knew that nothing was in the room just by looking at it, and hurried out again.
Zhou Zhengan stood on the corridor and called downstairs: "Mom."
Zhou's mother was still standing on the sofa. When she heard this, she looked up upstairs and asked, "What's wrong?"
Zhou Zheng'an said: "Have you thrown away all the pile of things from my senior year of high school?"
Mother Zhou thought for a while and said, "In the utility room on the second floor, I have piled up all the things you and your sister used when you were in school."
At that time, Zhou Zheng'an said that he would let Zhou's mother handle it as she pleased. He even sorted out the books and said that he was going to throw them away, but Zhou's mother stopped him and said that he would keep them as a souvenir for the future.
Zhou's mother has always been a romantic. Zhou Zheng'an didn't say anything at that time, but he didn't pay much attention to the whereabouts of those things later.
Now hearing Zhou's mother say this, Zhou Zhengan breathed a sigh of relief. At least he didn't throw it away. He turned around and walked upstairs.
Seeing her son's frizzy look, Mother Zhou couldn't help but raise her eyebrows. She turned to look at her aunt, who also had a puzzled look on her face.
Zhou Zhengan quickly walked to the utility room on the second floor. Although there were a lot of things in it, they were all neatly organized, and each shelf was labeled to make it easier for people to find it.
He quickly saw the words "Zheng'an, Senior Year" posted on a row of shelves.
There were two cardboard boxes on the shelf. One was filled with various textbooks and test papers, and the other was filled with small items.
Zhou Zhengan just took one look at it and moved the box full of small items to the ground.
He knelt down and rummaged through the box.
Zhou Zhengan only had one thought in his mind, that is, he wanted to find the card written by Jiang Nan. Fortunately, he did not throw away the thoughts given to him by others, and now he had the opportunity to find the thoughts of his beloved.
He didn't know why he was suddenly obsessed with a card from more than ten years ago, but it seemed like there was something in his heart that was about to pop out.
It was an extremely depressing heartbeat, and the answer was about to jump off the paper.
After searching for nearly ten minutes, Zhou Zhengan finally found a card in a pile of cards that looked most like Jiang Nan's.
He came out with a card that was covered with a lot of dust in his hand. The card was very simple, a small piece of white, with only patterns of flowers and vines drawn with colored pens around the paper.
This is the only unnamed card. There are only a few words on the card. It is not the girl's thoughts, nor is it a warm and melancholy confession, but more like a simple congratulations.
It says - I wish you success in the college entrance examination and a smooth future.
The font was clear and elegant, almost identical to the font written on the bookmark he saw at home.
These words, the black ink has already become a little faded, but they are extremely hot and pierce the hearts of the readers.
Zhou Zhengan kept this posture and stared at those words over and over for a long time. He kept wondering why Jiang Nan wrote a New Year's greeting card to him at that time.
Is it because he is Zhou Zhixu's brother, and she kindly gave it to everyone she might know?
This is the easiest answer to guess, but at this moment Zhou Zhengan wished that he was overthinking. He thought more and guessed more.
Then a bold and self-consciously absurd answer emerged.
Jiang Nan liked him, so she wrote him a greeting card.
However, she only left these few words for him. Zhou Zhengan could not see any hint of girls' joy for boys. In the short three years of high school, he could not remember too many people and things.
Jiang Nan was also a character who rarely appeared in Zhou Zhengan's sight. He had very little memory of her at that time, almost none. He only remembered that she was a friend of his younger sister Zhou Zhixu.
...
"Political security."
Mother Zhou stood at the door of the utility room and called her son.
Seeing that he didn't go downstairs for a while, she thought he hadn't found anything, so she came up to help him search. Unexpectedly, when she came up, she saw her son squatting quietly next to the box, and he didn't seem to be searching. The way things look.
She couldn't help but scream.
Zhou Zheng'an came to his senses from this sound. He realized that he was lost in thought and slowly stood up, feeling a slight numbness in his legs.
That was caused by squatting for too long.
Zhou Zhengan was still in a daze and didn't think about it. He didn't pay much attention to the waves of discomfort coming from his legs.
Mother Zhou asked him what he was looking for.
Zhou Zhengan rolled his eyes and whispered: "It's nothing, it's just a small item from before." He held the card in his hand and stuffed it into his coat pocket. It was warm in his clothes, and he realized that his fingers The tip is a little cold.
Mother Zhou nodded and didn't ask any more questions. She just said, "Would you like to stay for dinner today?" Seeing that it was almost time for dinner.
"No, Mom, Nannan is still at home. I'll go back and eat with her." He said this sentence almost subconsciously, along with the "Nannan" sound.
Zhou Zhengan would never use such a sticky and intimate title before, and his status today is not very online.
Mother Zhou nodded and said with a smile: "That's right, you are married now, and you have to go back to accompany your wife. If you see you well, that's fine. I almost forgot, you are the one who is going to have a wedding soon.
How can it be okay if you don’t stay with your wife at this time? "
Zhou Zhengan nodded absently and walked outside.
I don't know when, snowflakes started to fall in the sky again. The sky was getting dark quickly in winter. Zhou Zhengan called Jiang Nan while walking and said that he was on his way home.
Jiang Nan completed a big project today and had just received the share bonus. He was extremely happy at the moment. Zhou Zhengan's phone call that was just for reporting turned into a phone call between the two of them.
As Zhou Zhengan walked, he quietly listened to Jiang Nan's enthusiastic sharing. From the tone of his voice, he knew how excited Jiang Nan was at this moment.
From this, when Jiang Nan finished speaking, he slowly continued: "Then let's go out to eat today."
Jiang Nan responded quickly: "Okay, I'll treat you!"
She was so enthusiastic, Zhou Zhengan didn't say anything, he just curled his lips slightly and said, "It's up to you."
They met at an Italian restaurant outside the apartment. When Zhou Zhengan arrived, Jiang Nan was already ordering. Jiang Nan saw him, waved and asked what he wanted to eat.
Zhou Zhengan sat down opposite her and said, "Just order me any pasta."
"Tomato beef?"
"Yeah." Zhou Zhengan nodded.
